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| January 08, 2014 |
 Taiwan gets US submarine-launched missiles: report Taipei (AFP) Jan 08, 2014 - Taiwan has received the first shipment of anti-ship missiles which it ordered from the United States for its submarines, strengthening their attack capability, a senior official was Wednesday quoted as saying. Taiwan ordered the Harpoon missiles in 2008 as part of a $6.5 billion arms purchase which sparked strong protests from Beijing. The island already has Harpoons installed on its fri ... more |  |
 Markets seen shrinking for big-ticket jet fighters Rio De Janeiro (UPI) Jan 6, 2013 - High-definition warplanes face a shrinking market as procurement agencies draw lessons from Brazil's decision to choose outsider Gripen NG over more complex but costlier contenders from Boeing, Dassault Aviation and other manufacturers, analysts said. Brazil announced in December it was beginning talks with Saab, the Swedish manufacturer of Gripen NG, for extensive technology transfer a ... more |  |
 Hollande drives for arms deals in Persian Gulf as U.S. power wanes Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UPI) Jan 7, 2013 - French President Francois Hollande is pushing hard to restore Paris' once-thriving defense links with the Persian Gulf monarchies, especially the major military power Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, with the aim of securing major arms deals. He concluded a two-day visit to Riyadh Dec. 31 designed to restore France's diplomatic clout in the strategic, oil-rich region clearly e ... more |  |
 Voxx sees iris scans putting password era to bed Las Vegas (AFP) Jan 06, 2014 - Voxx International wants iris recognition technology to render passwords obsolete, offering a "one in two trillion" level of online security. The US-based consumer electronics company once known as Audiovox on Monday unveiled myris, a hockey-puck size gadget that allows a gaze to be the key to unlocking a computer, teller machine, or any other device needing a password. "Only DNA is more ... more |  |
 Iran nuclear talks to resume Thursday in Geneva Geneva (AFP) Jan 07, 2014 - Iran and world powers will meet in Geneva from Thursday to iron out remaining obstacles in implementing a historic nuclear deal struck in November, Iranian and EU officials said. The two-day meeting will bring together deputy negotiators from Iran and the so-called P5+1 group of world powers, European Union foreign policy spokesman Michael Mann told AFP. It was still not clear when the t ... more |  |
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 Outside View: Russia's terrorist attack and the message for China Herndon, Va. (UPI) Jan 7, 2013 - Those responsible for the Dec. 28 and 29 terrorist attacks on a railway station and trolley bus in Volgograd, Russia, have yet to step forward - although their identity will come as no surprise. Once identified, China will need a 36-year plan to deal with a growing threat which, by 2050, will be knocking on both sides of its bordering door with Russia. On Dec. 28, a female suici ... more |  |
Cyberwarfare main threat to US: poll Washington (AFP) Jan 06, 2014 - Cyberattacks are the most serious threat facing the United States, even more so than terrorism, according to American defense experts. Almost half of the US national security leaders, or 45.1 percent, who responded to a newly released poll by Defense News - a specialist publication - identified cyberwarfare as the principal danger to the country. Those questioned included leaders in na ... more |  |
Worried US warns North Korea, boosts troops to South Washington (AFP) Jan 07, 2014 - The United States said Tuesday it would send another 800 troops to South Korea as the allies warned North Korea against any provocation, amid deepening worries over the regime's stability. Amid concern after North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un executed his uncle, Secretary of State John Kerry met in Washington with South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-Se and said there was "not a sliver of da ... more |  |
Aborted defence deal underlines India's procurement problem New Delhi (AFP) Jan 08, 2014 - India's decision to cancel a $740-million helicopter contract with Italian-owned AgustaWestland last week added to an already long list of failed defence deals which have left the military short of crucial equipment. The deal to supply 12 transport helicopters, which were to ferry India's top-most leaders, was signed in February 2010, but was terminated last week after an investigation in It ... more |  |
 Outside View: Three New Year's wishes Washington (UPI) Jan 8, 2013 - A week after New Year's Day isn't too late for making wishes for 2014. Peace in Syria, Iraq and the Middle East looms large in the wishful category. So, too, does a successful agreement that effectively ensures Iran won't obtain nuclear weapons. And resolution of the conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan and India would greatly contribute to the global good. Some would consider thes ... more |  |
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Four killed in US military helicopter crash in Britain London (AFP) Jan 08, 2014 - British police and American military officials were investigating Wednesday after a US Air Force helicopter crashed in eastern England, killing all four crew onboard. The HH-60G Pave Hawk chopper, based at RAF Lakenheath air base, crashed at a nearby nature reserve in Cley-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, while flying low on a training exercise on Tuesday evening. Officers from the US Air Force, B ... more |  |
 Obama didn't believe his own war strategy: Gates Washington (AFP) Jan 08, 2014 - Former defense secretary Robert Gates has delivered a scathing critique of President Barack Obama's handling of the war in Afghanistan in a revealing new memoir, US media reported Tuesday. In "Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary of War," Gates recounts how Obama appeared to lack faith in a war strategy he had approved and in the commander he named to lead it, according to The New York Times and The ... more |  |
 Israelis alarmed at prospect of 'jihadist tsunami' on borders Tel Aviv, Israel (UPI) Jan 7, 2013 - Israel's security chiefs are increasingly concerned about what one analyst terms a "jihadist tsunami" building up around the Jewish state for the first time as al-Qaida groups emerge in war-torn Syria, turbulent Egypt and even in the Palestinian territories. The Palestinian Authority's intelligence service in the West Bank, most of which is still directly ruled by Israel, recently warne ... more |  |
 Iraq delays Fallujah assault as 29 killed in Ramadi Ramadi, Iraq (AFP) Jan 07, 2014 - Iraqi troops will delay assaulting the militant-held city of Fallujah, an officer said Tuesday, citing possible civilian casualties, as fighting and missile strikes in nearby Ramadi killed 29 people. Bombings and shootings elsewhere killed 27 people, among them 12 members of the security forces. Parts of Ramadi - the capital of Anbar province, west of Baghdad - and all of Fallujah have ... more |  |
Jihadists seize Iraqi towns in drive for new Islamic caliphate Baghdad (UPI) Jan 6, 2013 - The seizure of the key western towns of Fallujah and Ramadi by jihadists of al-Qaida's Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Dec. 30 in a campaign against the Shiite-dominated government underlines the Sunni group's growing strength and its drive to re-establish an Islamic caliphate centered in Baghdad that will extend into war-torn Syria. Iraqi officials say hundreds of people, includin ... more |  |
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Fighting in Iraq's Fallujah as jihadists urge resistance Fallujah, Iraq (AFP) Jan 08, 2014 - Fighting erupted in Iraq's Fallujah Wednesday after an Al-Qaeda-linked group urged fighters in the mainly Sunni Arab city to keep up their armed resistance against the Shiite-led government. Fallujah and parts of the Anbar provincial capital Ramadi farther west have been outside government control for days - the first time militants have exercised such open control in major cities since the ... more |  |
Chile ex-officers detained for 1973 disappearance of French ex-priest Santiago (AFP) Jan 07, 2014 - A judge in Chile ordered the arrest Tuesday of nine former military officers accused in the disappearance of a French former priest during the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship. Judge Mario Carroza ordered the ex-air force officers held in the case of Etienne Pesle de Menil, a former cleric who went missing in 1973, during the early days of the Pinochet regime. The priest, an activist on lan ... more |  |
Nine Assam youths killed in Indian tribal fighting New Delhi (UPI) Jan 8, 2013 - The Assam state government is urging the federal Indian government to send more paramilitary security forces to the region in the wake of tribal clashes that left nine youths dead. Government officials in Assam's state capital Dispur believe the insurgent group Isak-Muivah - a faction of the militant Nationalist Socialist Council of Nagaland - was involved in the brutal killing of the ... more |  |
Nexter calls for bidding expense reimbursement Ottawa (UPI) Jan 7, 2013 - Canada's recent decision to scrap its close combat vehicle procurement program has been strongly criticized by contract bidder Nexter Systems Canada. The company, a subsidiary of France's Nexter Group, said it was astonished by the move and that it expected the government to reimburse competing companies for monies expended in the bidding process. "Nexter has invested a great amo ... more |  |
Iran not on Syria peace conference list: UN United Nations, United States (AFP) Jan 06, 2014 - UN leader Ban Ki-moon on Monday sent invitations to 30 countries to attend a Syria peace conference this month, but did not include Iran, a spokesman said. US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will meet on January 13 in a bid to decide Iran's role in ending the nearly three-year-old war, said UN deputy spokesman Farhan Haq. Russia supports the parti ... more |  |
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